Sheehan (2003:114) – Interpretações do ser do ente

Heidegger reads the history of Western metaphysics as a series of epochs in which philosophers elaborated different interpretations of the being of entities - for example, being as idea   in Plato  , as energeia   in Aristotle  , right down to being as eternal recurrence of the same in Nietzsche  . Each epoch of metaphysics is characterized by its understanding of the presence of entities and its oblivion of the absence/finitude that makes possible (or “dispenses") that presence. For Heidegger, the last   and climactic phase in this “history of being” is our own epoch of technology and nihilism.

(Thomas Sheehan  . "Martin Heidegger". In A Companion to the Philosophers. Second, revised edition. Edited by Roben L. Arrington. Blackwell, Oxford, 2003, p. 114.)